It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.